“World IPv6 Day has Facebook, Google & Yahoo Support”

It seems that the big players, at least, are finally bowing to the inevitable and starting to test IPv6. I’ve got too many pieces that aren’t IPv6-ready to handle any kind of native IPv6. My computer hardware is all ready, and all of the operating systems I use support it (Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal,” Mac …

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A New Password Manager

I’ve mentioned a couple times before that I used KeePassX, the unofficial Linux port of the highly-thought-of KeePass Password Safe. A few months ago I decided that I’d gotten tired of using it… KeePassX had only basic password management features, it lacked most of the nice features that I heard KeePass had, like automatically and …

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Self-Discovery, Part 2

(In part 1, I talked about discovering a few weeks ago that there’s a name for the differences between myself and others, High-Functioning Autism, referred to as HFA from here on. This part focuses on my reactions to that discovery.) I’m still trying to make sense of my life in light of this new information. …

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Self-Discovery, Part 1

When I was in my late twenties, I ran across a checklist for depression. I was shocked to discover that I had nearly every symptom listed on it, and had for more than twenty years. I got treatment for it and discovered that life was nowhere near as difficult, painful, and pointless as it had …

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“$1,000 reward offered for stolen cancer research laptop”

This is ridiculous: Medical researchers in Oklahoma are offering a no-questions-asked $1,000 reward for the return of a stolen laptop that contains years of research on prostate cancer. […] Has no one heard of backups?! Any time you have data that you can’t afford to lose, you should be making regular backups of it! Preferably …

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